I still want to write the fic where an outsider has all these preconceptions about what the Force is and then goes into a room with a bunch of Jedi who are tearing into each other like bitchy old academics.
“Ooh, look at Master Structuralist over here with his ever-so-deep ‘everything is attachment actually’ reading”
“I don’t want to hear that from someone who calls every new opinion ‘new depths of their relationship with the Force’”
“The Jedi Order is a social construct–”
“Could you stuff the po-mo and pick up a book once in a while? These aren’t new ideas! You are not a pioneer because you asked one question!”
“I think you could all benefit on more reflection on how our rooting in the Force is actually deeply sexual–”
“If I have to hear one more word about lightsabers being penis envy you are going to be one with the Force immediately.”
yes please I need more jedi symposiums with knights who had different views than consulars who have different views than shadows. Temple-centered jedi versus those who lead frequent diplomatic or medical missions versus exploratory and research jedi who spend most of their time in uninhabited wild space and the outer rim.
There is absolutely no way an organization that large doesn’t have factions that understand the force differently–my 15-person philosophy class couldn’t agree on a single thing we read all term.
Anakin shows up once, pulls up his PowerPoint and it just says “I am the Chosen One.”
It happened six hundred years ago so no one knows but theories range from “he ate all the snacks” to “he personally instigated a duel meant to settle whether channeling the force through combat meditation is more effective than through regular meditation but the duel got out of hand and everyone but him lost at least one limb”
the truth is that he was never actually banned, he’s just been saying it so he doesn’t have to go. he started all the rumors himself
The conference has a no murders, attempted murders or arrests on the behalf of the Republic clause, specifically because of the number of Jedi trying to arrest other Jedi for disagreeing with their theories.
Dooku take advantage of the facts that you are not required to be a Jedi to attend, for his first 10 years post-Order, and the fact that they can’t legally arrest him for the next three.
Anakin is 14 the first time the Nightsister is invited, and is only doing this presentation for the video of Obi-Wan’s face, so that he can bribe Quinlan into giving him speeder parts with it.
Mace loves it, because it’s the one time of year he gets to see Skywalker cause everybody but him a headache.
“I know this because the Force told me so” was Qui-Gon, who uses this as his regular excuse for everything, in this case, as an excuse to be a little shit-stirrer.
For people who might not know - Wendy Carlos is a trans woman who was deeply influential in early electronic music and hugely involved with the push to have synthesizers seen as real instruments.
Some of the movies Wendy Carlos did the soundtracks for, that you may know:
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Tron
She has three Grammys, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
Oh and she also takes photos of eclipses that are so good Nasa uses them.
fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them
also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)
terrifying!
On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.
plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean
As an ex cruise ship employee, let me give you some stuff to work with!
Water tight doors! You get a special training video on interacting with these correctly because they will literally cut you in half if you try and go through them while they’re closing!
Freezer vaults for food in the sub decks - you can only get into these with the correct code and they have very thick walls. Good luck if you get shut in one of these just after the last round of checks bucko
There are cameras everywhere…except in the crew cabin corridors. Also there are no windows down there because unless you’re an officer, you live below the waterline. Day and night have no meaning because everything is in the same slightly unsettling yellow light.
Don’t piss off the guys who deal with the rubbish. They have machines down there that can crush metal barrels
As well as morgues, cruise ships usually have one basic operating theatre with all the attendant horrifying equipment in it
One cigarette thrown carelessly in the wrong place WILL start a fire that will gut half the ship.
When we’re pitching side to side, the anchor swings out and then back in, striking the metal outer shell with a noise that shakes half the ship
People disappear overboard more often than you’d really want to be a thing
A lot of cruise ships now have theatres on board (usually towards the front) with all the potential for dark corners, creepy costumes and electrical calamities you could want.
And as op says, you can’t really escape a ship in the middle of the ocean. Particularly during a storm, as then you can’t even evacuate to lifeboats unless the whole ship is going down. On the upside being on board during a storm means most guests hide in their cabins and the staff walk around like drunks, which would likely throw off a skilled murderer’s plans.
Takes notes
You also have the bonus of a corporate overlord who doesn’t give a shit about anything but profits and can be reliably counted on to downplay any disaster in an attempt to avoid publicity.
Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships show just how fast a highly contagious virus spreads, how hard it is to avoid catching it due to surface contamination and food transmission, and how disgusting the ship rapidly becomes. Unnavigable with filth. (Seriously I won’t go into it but accounts are sometimes horrific.)
If you want a zombie virus outbreak or something like that, a cruise ship could create up to NINE THOUSAND infected. (Based on the capacity of the current largest cruise ship.)
so, you can also rent cruise ships for private events, so if a rich weirdo wants to do a ghost hunting party, you’re set. (thinking house on haunted hill). Or a ghost hunter convention on a haunted ship!
it’s super easy to get turned around on a cruise ship, according to my friend who has been on one. The halls are very samey- some ships have systems to designate what side of the ship you’re on, and the numbers should indicate deck, but if you’re drunk…
(some people decorate their doors so they’re easier to find, although I imagine that some cruise ship lines frown on this kind of thing.)
point is, a chase scene? thinking you’re almost to your room but whoops you’re on the wrong side of the ship/wrong deck? or maybe taking a while to realize you’re being led in circles… but by what?
you can use seasickness as a plot point- staying on deck is good for someone who’s seasick, so maybe the character sees something they otherwise wouldn’t whilst trying to tame their seasickness. maybe they miss some mass-spreader zombie event because they’re sleeping off seasickness meds. seasickness is actually great because it can be debilitating but usually wears off in 24 hours, so you can have someone be pretty sick and then bounce back and be running in terror with relative ease.
decommissioned cruise ship for sale. the rich weirdos strike again. (journalist following rich weirdos on their creepy cruise ship social experiment/crypto thing/cult thing, perhaps, at least one of which I know was attempted)
like I’m not even mad about it because the program was running out of work to give. that’s totally fine!! but it’s the timing!! the timing!! I’m broke as fuck lmao oh my god what am I gonna do!!!
alright! we’re unemployed. cool cool cool. hopefully I can find something soon but UNTIL THEN:
The fight to defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta has become one of the most vibrant movements of the post-Trump era, interweaving environmentalism, abolitionism, and the struggle against gentrification. Yet as police begin employing lethal violence and indiscriminate terrorism charges, it has reached a critical juncture.
In this comprehensive history of the past year of struggle, participants reflect on the practices that have given the movement strength and analyze the challenges that face it.
This is a follow-up to last year’s article, “The City in the Forest,” which traced the first phase of the movement.
#StopCopCity #DefendtheAtlantaForest
[ID: a group of masked people marching down a city street. several of them hold a large banner that reads “trees give life, police take it.” another sign in the background displays a photo of Tortuguita and reads “city of Atlanta: how many more? Black + Indigenous lives matter.” another banner, partially visible, says “vive Tortuguita.” in the middle of the crowd, an object dispensing a plume of white smoke appears to be attached to an umbrella. end ID]
People love to talk about whether or not disabled people can work
but if you can work just fine and your disability is destroying your ability to have a life outside of work (because work takes all your energy and more)
Dead silence. Nobody cares.
File this under, oh you can be active for 4 hours? You can work part-time. Um no, I have to get ready for work (30 min) get to work (15 min) get home from work (15 min) feed myself all day (30 min) maintain myself, my home and my life (15 min, yeah right), which leaves 15 min for work and absolutely nothing else.
This is so accurate, back after I’d relapsed I wanted to try and go in for one class at school so I could still stay in contact with the education system. I let slip during a meeting that I managed to drag myself to that I could manage about 4 hours of activity a week, which the teacher sprang on to mean I was being lazy for just trying to get to 1 hour class. Never matter that it was 30 minutes travel, that I would have to get washed and dressed, that I would probably still need to recover for 3 days from it.
Far too often abled people see the things they do easily as “non activities”, they don’t realise that for many disabled people these things have to be carefully planned and measured, and sometimes they simply can’t be done.
reblog bc the non activities thing seems really important words
I get X number of pain-free steps per day right now, which means that, for large conventions (like SDCC), I need to be in a mobility device. I had someone ask if I used up my steps every day before transferring to the scooter, and look surprised and a little horrified when I said “no, I save them so I can go to the bathroom unassisted.” Like, they had never considered that walking is involved in peeing.
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Reblogging for the important point that the term “activity” may mean something very different and much broader for a disabled person with a chronic pain or fatigue related condition compared to its meaning for a non disabled person. If you’re tired enough, simply sitting up in a chair rather than lying in bed is an activity that drains energy otherwise usable for other things. A thing I knew from other people with pain and fatigue related conditions, but worth reinforcing for followers who didnt know or had forgotten.
How do any of you earn things?
We don’t, it’s almost like disability puts us at risk of poverty or something.
The situation, as you can imagine, is fucked. Two huge areas in south/southeast Atlanta have been bought & there are plans to raze the forest. One to build MORE film studios for Blackhall Studios (think Venom, Jumanji), and the other – Cop City.
There is a massive plan to essentially make a fake-city for APD and other law enforcement agencies to train in, to practice their increased militarization. The plan is bigger than the NYPD training ground iirc.
The Cop City news caught a lot of citizens surprised, and after a lot of push back, Atlanta City Council was basically like “Okay, fine, here’s a day everyone can call in and comment”. I think it was something like 13 hours of calls, 65% disapproval of Cop City. And City Council approved anyways. They pulled the same stunt with the juvenile detention center in Decatur like 20 years earlier.
And I’m sure no one will be surprised to hear that this is in a predominantly black neighborhood in ATL. City Council would never dream of allowing forest to be destroyed & Cop City to be built in Buckhead or other whiter, wealthier areas of ATL (not that it should be built at all!!)
There’s a ton more information on their Twitter & their other social media in the linktree. Talk to your neighbors, call city council, provide aid to the forest defenders if you can.
They are cutting trees in the largest urban green space in the country for the largest pig training facility in the country.
This is still going on, and they recently killed a forest defender called Tortugita.
[ID: Images in the OP: photos of signs hanging from various places in a forest. The first reads “you are now leaving the USA.” The second reads “Zadlanta!” (the first A is the anarchist ‘A’; the N is the international squatter’s symbol). The third reads “land acknowledgement: the Atlanta forest is of the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee peoples, Indigenous caretakers, and Black descendants.” the third is written across the blade of a bulldozer and has text “defend the ATL forest” alongside an anarchist ‘A’ symbol. Another piece of heavy machinery (eikon EX33OLC) with “defend the ATL forest” spray-painted on it. A photo of a person dressed in black with black head wrappings and only their eyes visible. A mechanical/maintenance box with “fire to the machines,” “ACAB” and “FTP” spray-painted on it alongside anarchist ‘A’s. A huge sign suspended high in the trees reading “no forest no peace. #StopCopCity. #NoHollywoodDystopia. Defend ATL forest.” A damaged piece of heavy machinery with its tires flattened partly covered in black spray paint. Spray-painted writing on it reads “no cop city, no Blackhall.” A barricade constructed in the forest on which is written “1312”, “ACAB” and “fuck off.”
Images in the first reblog: Four people standing and squatting on top of a flatbed truck turned on its side. A sign suspended in the trees above them reads “fuck the police.” A barricade of tires and wire fencing in the forest. A piece of heavy machinery that has been set aflame. A group of people with their faces covered standing at an elevation compared to the camera. An upturned car, spraypainted black, next to a sign reading “fuck this world and its cops.” A person wearing red sunglasses and a keffiyeh with a rifle print. A person sitting in a platform suspended in a tree; a group of eight people in camouflage with their faces covered stand on the ground beneath them. A sign propped up in front of them reads “haha Lou, fuck you.” The last image is of a sign suspended in the trees that reads “forest defense is self-defense.” an antifascist action flag is suspended next to the sign.
The image in the third reblog is text reading: “A message from the tree sitters. We are here today to stop the development of a police militarization facility, where police would train in tactics of repression and violence against the citizens of Atlanta. We are here today to stop a beautiful forest from being destroyed, to stop countless animals and plants from being exterminated in this place. Two incredibly important topics are at stake here today. Climate change and police violence are two of the most pressing issues affecting our society today, and they will only worsen if this facility is built. We cannot stand by as we sacrifice humanity’s future for a Cop City.” the message is attributed to “Wish.” hashtags at the bottom read “defend the Atlanta forest,” “stop cop city,” and “no Hollywood dystopia.” end ID.]
i don’t usually post pics of me and my gal on here bc some folks r truly evil racists and transphobes who don’t go outside but this pic of us drunk at a wedding is like the best ever 😭
the gays win again
while you’re all here, help us homos survive if u can! 🖤🖤🖤
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Please reblog this, I need $582 for the remainder of rent and my car insurance.
I also have an appt with my endocrinologist this coming Monday and I will have a copay and my car payment is due this coming wednesday.
Please help us. We are two multimarginalized folks in the deep south and it is intensely unsafe for us to lose our home.
Please share, this is urgent.
2/16 - I still need help with this!
2/24 - my bills due have updated from my last 3 appointments. Please help if you can. I’ve gotten $45 in 2 days and need food and gas and the phone bill.
2/26 - urgent! Notes and d*nations have dried up but I severely need help! Still need funds for groceries and gas ASAP! thank you for sharing!!
2/28 - please help, notes do not correlate to d0nations and we are STRUGGLING. Please. This is URGENT.
*has video game open* hm i dont feel like playing this right now actually *closes it* man i wish i was playing video game right now *opens it again* hm i dont feel like playing this right now actually *closes it
The problem is these prepper folks don’t want communes, with resource sharing and democratic decision making. They want independent fiefdoms where they can be absolute dictators over their immediate families.
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